Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 2 hours later[^][v]#1,241,320
I'm married with a kid, why would anyone be sending me money?
But back last early March the ruble doubled almost overnight to 188 rubles to a pound so I transfered 30,000 pounds across from my HSBC account and used that money to buy another apartment. We rent it out and the money goes to supplement my wife's parents' pensions. Decent little investment.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 2 years ago, 13 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,241,341
@previous (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
I've never felt like I live under an authoritarian government but regardless, how do you think this affects the day to day life of citizens? Do you think the daily lived experience of an average Brit is 'better' than that of an average Russian? Taking into account health care, education system, social services, cost of living (my gas bill last month for a 3-bedroom apartment was 65 rubles, that's about 50 pence, how much was yours?), and so on. My aunt recently had to pay 3000 pounds for a cancer screening because the NHS waiting list is over a year long. I have never had to wait so much as an hour for any medical procedure and I've certainly never had to pay for one. My wife gets 3 years full maternity leave pay, what does the UK government give young mothers? My child's education, including nursery school, will be entirely free. I honestly just don't get what people (who have never been here) mean when they say life in Russia is bad. I don't know a single Russian who sees a therapist or is on some form of antidepressants. I can't say the same for Brits I know.
And as for corruption, check out which "defender of global freedom and democracy" currently ranks #116 on the corruption index, alongside Angola, Zambia and El Salvador:
Kind of amusing that Europe is tanking their economies sending hundreds of billions of pounds and euros to, I quote, "the most corrupt country in Europe".
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 2 years ago, 9 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^][v]#1,241,654
@1,241,648 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U) @previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Biden makes gaffes all the time. If you want to work in his administration, you need to make at least one enormous speaking error during your tenure or you get fired for upstaging the big guy.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 2 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^][v]#1,241,656
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
It wasn't a gaffe. He spoke correctly the first 2 times before the media reminded him that he's there to lie. He almost cost his masters at Raytheon billions of dollars with that careless bit of truth.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 2 years ago, 11 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^][v]#1,241,663
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Yes, if the press hadn't told him to say "Russia" instead of "Ukraine" twice, Raytheon would have gone bankrupt and Zelenskyy would have been executed in Moscow tomorrow. This is how the world works.
> Yes, if the press hadn't told him to say "Russia" instead of "Ukraine" twice, Raytheon would have gone bankrupt and Zelenskyy would have been executed in Moscow tomorrow. This is how the world works.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U replied with this 2 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^][v]#1,241,674
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
The bar is not high. I met a guy the other day who said "America's interest in this war is to defend Ukrainian democracy" and even HE was smarter than dw.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U double-posted this 2 years ago, 22 hours later, 5 days after the original post[^][v]#1,241,871
Oh dear. Due to a clerical fuck-up, an actual person rather than a sycophantic plant got to ask a question of America's leaders, with hilarious results:
A Ukrainian mother blasts National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden for sacrificing a generation of Ukrainian men by being shit-scared of Russia. Sullivan tells her to show gratitude to America. After all, were it not for the "generosity" of the American people, her son would not be sleeping safe and sound in a corridor right now while America calculates how many more lucrative years of war they can bleed out of the last few million Ukrainians!
"Please advise me: What should I tell my son? That President Biden and NATO didn't invite Ukraine to NATO because he's afraid of Russia? Afraid of Russia losing? Afraid of Ukraine winning? Or the raw backchannel communications with Kremlin, which is terrorist organization, to reach their Minsk 3 deal? Should I prepare my son to be a soldier and fight Russians when he will be 18 years in 7 years?” Kaleniuk asked Sullivan"
Yes, Daria. If all goes to plan for the US, that's EXACTLY what you should prepare your son for.